Rosie Ming, a young Canadian poet, is invited to perform at a poetry festival in Shiraz, Iran, but she’d rather go to Paris. She lives at home with her over-protective Chinese grandparents and has never been anywhere by herself. Once in Iran, she finds herself in the company of poets and Persians who tell her stories that force her to confront her past: the Iranian father she assumed abandoned her and the nature of poetry itself. The film is about building bridges between cultural and generational divides. It’s about being curious, staying open and finding your own voice through the magic of poetry.
The film’s voice actors include Sandra Oh (Rosie), Ellen Page (Kelly, Rosie’s best friend), Don McKellar (a young poet named Dietmar), Shohreh Aghdashloo (Mehrnaz, a professor at the University of Tehran) and Nancy Kwan (Gloria, Rosie’s overprotective grandmother). More than a dozen animators, including Kevin Langdale, Janet Perlman, Bahram Javaheri and Jody Kramer, worked on the film with Fleming.
Directed by: Ann Marie Fleming
Production Year: 2016
Country: Canada
Length: 90 minutes
Credits
Director: Ann Marie Fleming
Writer: Ann Marie Fleming
Producers: Ann Marie Fleming, Shirley Vercruysse, Michael Fukushima
Animation: Kevin Langdale, Ian Godfrey, Nathaniel Akin, Patrick Dufresne
Composer: Taymaz Saba
Editor: Ileana Pietrobruno
Sound Designer: Gordon Durity
Cast
Sandra Oh
Shohreh Aghdashloo
Payman Maadi
Ellen Page
Omid Abtahi
